What's on my nails today?

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I know, a second post on the same day? Shocking! But both Michelle and Juanita expressed their curiosity about the rejected, beige-brown version of my Triad manicure so I figured, why not write about it right now, when I have a little free time :)

I have to warn you though, I totally didn't do the gorgeous polishes I used any justice so please search for swatches by people who actually know how to photograph holographic polishes if you want to know what they look like in real life, deal? Alright! In that case, here you go:

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I bet you didn't expect a new post from me, right? It's been way too long since I showed off my last manicure but it's the last Friday of the month so it's time for the Triad manicure and of course I can't let Michelle and Juanita down. Especially as the inspiration of this month, chosen by Juanita, is absolutely beautiful! It's this monochrome manicure by Olga from @son_nail. Juanita immediately called dibs on using her beloved Pebble, Michelle laid claim on black-n-white and me... I was stuck trying to figure out what colors I would use! As you can see, it turned out to be purple and white:

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A quick post today as I'm already halfway out the door to the next appointment... and this is what I'll be walking out the door with:

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This week's challenge is splatter... a technique I haven't tried before so my brain was already thinking of what plates to use. But I had the entire afternoon basically to myself today as my husband was running a (lengthy) errand and I'm on standby duty for work so I have to remain close to phone, email and computer, so I figured I could try a real splatter manicure and I would be able to clean up the mess and stamp something if it turned out disastrous. In the end I had to clean up some mess but I'm quite proud of the outcome. Let me present my very first splatter manicure:

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It's the last Friday of the month (and for once actually the last day of the month as well) so that means it's time for the Friday Triad manicure: Michelle, Juanita and me sharing our manicure that was inspired by a manicure that was on one (or more) of our to-do lists. Michelle picked this month: beautiful mustard and navy nails by Debbie, the lady from Lady and the Stamp.

Michelle was actually very early in sending the link so I had plenty of time to search my plates for a suitable image... and search them again as I didn't find anything I liked ("Honey, I need more plates... I have absolutely NOTHING to use on my nails!!"). Finally I decided on an image that "would do" and I started looking for colors. I settled on purple and mauve and pink and was just about ready to start painting when my husband asked me what I was working on. I showed him Debbie's manicure and he asked me why I didn't go for the same colors, mustard and navy. Well... because I don't like mustard on my nails? Apparently that wasn't good enough for him so he did the unthinkable... he asked my mom (who had come over for something or other) what colors she liked best and she did the utter unthinkable... she agreed with my husband I should go for mustard and navy!! As you can imagine I couldn't stand up against the two of them so I put the purple and the mauve and the pink back in their spot and looked for the required colors. This is the end result:

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this week's manicure is nothing like what I had in mind. I was thinking something along the lines of butterflies, reverse stamped with bright, maybe even neon colors. But life happened and yesterday we had to go to another formal occasion where bright and neon or even too much decoration wouldn't be appreciated. So I looked through my neutrals, found a pretty one and wore it the entire day as a full manicure. This morning, when I sat down to do my manicure for the animal prompt, I wasn't feeling bright or neon at all. In fact, I felt a bit sad, so I decided to just pick colors that would maybe make me feel a little better and use my already painted nails as a base. This is the end result:

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this week's prompt is Houndstooth, or (as we call it) Pied-de-Poule. I actually knew what it was because my mother used to have a suit, consisting of a jacket and a pencil skirt, in this pattern. The twist was that her jacket had a fuchsia pink lining, so this manicure is based on my memory of what she looked like: the black-n-white pattern, the pink lining and the silver watch she wore (and still wears btw ;)

Yesterday was a sad day for my family and me as we had to say a final farewell to my cousin.
His motto was: live your best life.
This one's for him.

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As you can see, I've spend an hour or so filing down my nails... again... :(
After breaking the nail on my left middle finger, I decided to take pictures of my Cinderella hand for a while, only to crash into a door when it was opened unexpectedly so that took another two nails from my right hand. I managed to avoid getting hit in the face though! So it's back to shorties (and pampering them as much as I can to encourage them to grow faster). I was lucky though, no breaks went into the pink part so it doesn't hurt.

Anyway, the 32nd prompt calls for Black and White and for me that means a minimal design, which in turn means the emphasis is on the paint and stamp job... I hope I did a decent job: